Registration and Networking
INTRO and Welcome
Keynote: Security solutions for Microgrid energy networks
Security for smart industrial systems is prominent due to the proliferation of cyber threats threatening national critical infrastructures. Smart grid comes with intelligent applications that can utilize the bidirectional communication network among its entities. Microgrids are small-scale smart grids that enable Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications as they can operate with some degree of independence from the main grid.
In addition to protecting critical microgrid applications,an underlying key management scheme is needed to enable secure M2M message transmission and authentication. Existing key management schemes are not adequate due to microgrid special features and requirements.
We propose the Micro sElf-orgaNiSed mAnagement (MENSA), which is the first hybrid key management and authentication scheme that combines Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Web-of-Trust concepts in micro-grids.
Our experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of MENSA in terms of scalability and swiftness.
#security #microgrid #mensa
Metaverse Waves: Getting ‘real’ in the virtual world - ACCENTURE Platinum Sponsor
Accenture defines the metaverse as an evolution of the internet that enables a user to move beyond 'browsing' to ‘inhabiting’ in a persistent, shared experience that spans the spectrum of our real world to the fully virtual and in between.
The metaverse will define the next big wave of digital transformation. Why the metaverse is mega-valuable and why is expected to change our lives?
Foundations of the Metaverse: Azure Spatial Anchors and Understanding 3D Space
The Metaverse is one of the big buzzwords that has been adopted by large tech companies in 2021 to the extent that Facebook's parent company even changed their name to Meta.
A core component of the Metaverse is ability to precisely locate oneself, real objects and virtual objects in a real environment and to be able to understand that environment.
This session looks at relevant Azure, software, and hardware technologies that help with this task such as Azure Spatial Anchors to enable the Metaverse.
Microsoft HoloLens 2 will serve as a demonstration device for those technologies.
After this session attendees will have a better understanding of what can enable a Metaverse that integrates with the real world.
#Metaverse #DigitalTwin
Coffee BREAK
Full throttle using the Grafana stack - GWI Gold Sponsor
How can the god of mischief (Loki), combined with the speed of a track (Tempo) and good old Grafana+Prometheus combo can enable GWI’s engineers to enhance and scale monitoring of their applications?
Let’s find out!
To all developers: Your code adds or removes your system’s security
Should we all agree that Security is a software quality aspect that needs to be treated in all seriousness and craftsmanship? This presentation will show how security can be integral to a software developer’s daily work (or habit if you will) and how it is affected by how clean and maintainable a given codebase is.
Our goal is to help software developers realize how the so called Security by Design is affected by making sure the code they develop is highly maintainable. In our experience the majority of security incidents are caused by software mistakes (or better code-level mistakes). During our session we will use real-life examples to demonstrate how good code quality can be a layer of security defense from inside out. After all, good and maintainable code means faster changes and faster fixes when security incidents occur.
Our final goal is to contribute in shaping the software developers culture in adding the perspective of Security and secure coding early on during the development process of a given system. We firmly believe that more (and better) awareness should be raised towards this direction underlining the significance of how different source code properties affect each other and ultimately how maintainability reinforces Security by Design.
#SwMaintainability #AppsSecurity #Bestpractices #codequality
Scaling apps reflects the ability of the software to grow or change with the user’s demands - INTRALOT Gold Sponsor
A presentation to help you understand what is the scalability of web apps, why it is so important and the key components to consider when building a scalable web application.
Improving Developer Experience with Backstage
Onboarding is difficult, finding information can be a pain, collaborating across teams or domains is hard, and no-one likes context switching between cloud portals, CI/CD Tooling and whatnot. This and other modern frustrations are causing friction in the day-to-day lives of developers.
This friction is taking away pleasure, effectiveness, and will eventually result in bad code, people leaving or being burnt out. Investing in Developer Happiness is key, but where to begin? Should you build yet another portal? Implement that new DevOps platform? Try that Inner Source thing?
In this session we're discussing all of this and take a look at Backstage, an Open Source platform you can use to build an Internal Developer Portal with and massively improve your developer experience. Because happy developers write happy code.
#DevOps #DevEx #Tools
Lunch BREAK and Networking
Meet Yodeck - YODECK Silver Sponsor
Yodeck is a leading digital signage cloud service based on the raspberry pi and now expanding to other platforms. Yodeck enables its customers to create rich, dynamic digital displays via an easy to use, cost-effective platform including pre-configured, plug and play media players.
Security through an innovation lens
Security has been conceived as a necessity rather than a requirement, resulting in complexity, longer deployment cycles and labor intensive assessments.
In the cloud native application innovation space, security is build in rather than bolt on. Let’s discover how Microsoft Azure accelerate innovation without unnecessary risks
#Azure #DevSecOps #ApplicationsSecurity #CI/CD
Embracing disruption in the publishing industry - ATYPON Silver Sponsor
Open Access is changing how the world disseminates science towards improving scientific communication, maximizing the impact of research and driving more equitable outcomes for society. At the same time, it is disrupting the publishing industry, which for a long time was relying on the subscription model to facilitate access to quality peer-reviewed research.
This talk will provide a brief synopsis of how Atypon, a Wiley company and worldwide leader in scientific publishing platforms, is supporting the acceleration of the transition to Open Access and the publishing industry's transformation, via state of the art technology solutions and services that transcend all stages of the academic publishing process.
Specifically, we will provide glimpses into the ways that our Data and ML pipelines are supporting researchers' journeys, and how our platform -- through which half of the world’s peer-reviewed research flows -- is a key enabler for improving the user experience and expanding the value chain of scholarly publishing.
How (not) to make the most of network simulation: lessons learnt
Are we making the most of network simulation? Are we benefitting from digital network twins (or replicas) as much as possible?
This presentation is based on 20+ years of experience working with intelligent software solutions that address key mobile network challenges.
The presentation will highlight typical errors made when developing simulation solutions with the goal of analysing, predicting or optimising mobile network performance, service quality and customer experience. Avoiding such errors, which are relevant to AI/ML too, will help us maximise the benefits from network simulation.
#Simulation #digital twin #analytics #automation #AI/ML #5G #6G
From dev to production in one click - Signal Group Silver Sponsor
The speech will focus on how Signal leveraged Microsoft Azure technologies like Elastic Pools & App services in order to improve the time needed to take a new feature from dev to production.
Lucas will shed light on how this happened without compromising on quality and at the same time making simple for all stakeholders to have visibility.
Coffee BREAK
How Metaverse transforms the music industry. Opportunities && Challenges
The Metaverse is the post-reality universe, a perpetual and persistent multiuser environment merging physical reality with digital virtuality.
It is based on the convergence of technologies that enable multisensory interactions with virtual environments, digital objects, and people such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). It enables seamless embodied user communication in real-time and dynamic interactions with digital artifacts.
This speech will try to uncover how the metaverse will transform the music industry, how the copyrights are going to be protected in this era, and to shed some light on the opportunities and challenges ahead.
#metaverse #nfts #music #decentraland
GIFTS and CLOSING
AFTER PARTY
Registration and Networking
INTRO and Welcome
Keynote: Innovation and Challenges when building Sui, the next generation blockchain
Today's blockchain infrastructure suffers from many fundamental problems such as asset safety and scalability. These problems prevents blockchain technology from being adopted in modern applications.
In this talk, we describe how we design and build the next generation blockchain infrastructure, Sui, from ground up with asset safety and scalability in mind. We will talk about our innovations in data model and programming languages that will enable strong asset safety by design and horizontal scalability with maximum parallelism.
We will demonstrate how Sui can enable creators and developers to build experiences that cater to the next billion users in web3.
#blockchain
Nokia Technology Vision 2030 - ΝΟΚΙΑ Platinum Sponsor
By 2030, the world will have undergone a significant transformation. The drivers for this change will be trends in geo-politics, social economics, technology, and especially, in the expectations of the different types of users.
These changes have an impact on how we interact both with the physical and the digital worlds. Though, the Internet will continue to be central, how the Internet will be used will change significantly. This creates new expectations for the networks and how networks are used.
This presentation will examine the forces moving the world and the impact they have on the future networks and the related technologies.
#2030, #future networking #human augmentation #digital-physical fusion
Terraform Practices - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Terraform is a GREAT tool, but like a lot of other things in life, it has its pitfalls and bad practices.
Since you are working with Terraform, you probably went through its documentation, which can tell you what resources can be used - BUT do you always have a clear path towards using these resources? How should modules be constructed? How should you structure your Terraform code in general?
In this talk, I’ll cover the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to Terraform. I will show best practices for working with Terraform that were put together with a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, so you’ll ultimately have a go-to approach and a paved way for working with Terraform, whether it’s an existing codebase or a new functionality altogether, and also hopefully make you think about the big picture and utilize Terraform in a broader context rather than just an “infrastructure as code"" tool.
#Terraform
Cofee BREAK
API Central Management and Security with Azure - Microsoft Gold Sponsor
In this session we are going to talk about how to secure and manage all your APIs centrally using the Azure API Management Service. Azure API management provides core functions to ensure a successful API program through developer participation, business insight, analysis, security, and protection.
Now you can manage all your APIs through one interface and evolve backend architecture without impacting API consumers. Join me to explore API Management features and best practices like versioning, request routing, authentication, caching, SSL offloading and more in a live demo of the service, where we will connect multiple APIs and other Azure services and finally expose them through a Developer portal, where our frontend developers can independently subscribe and try out those APIs with minimal effort.
Tags: Microsoft, Azure, API Management, Software development
Foundations of the Metaverse: Azure Spatial Anchors and Understanding 3D Space
The Metaverse is one of the big buzzwords that has been adopted by large tech companies in 2021 to the extent that Facebook's parent company even changed their name to Meta.
A core component of the Metaverse is ability to precisely locate oneself, real objects and virtual objects in a real environment and to be able to understand that environment.
This session looks at relevant Azure, software, and hardware technologies that help with this task such as Azure Spatial Anchors to enable the Metaverse.
Microsoft HoloLens 2 will serve as a demonstration device for those technologies.
After this session attendees will have a better understanding of what can enable a Metaverse that integrates with the real world.
#Metaverse #DigitalTwinResiliency verification through Chaos - XM Gold Sponsor
In God we trust.... Everyone else must pass through CHAOS!!!
A brief walk-through of how we used Chaos Engineering to establish resiliency trust in our infrastructure.
Chopping the monolith
Micro services are ubiquitous. However, most companies that implement micro services do not reap their full benefits - at best. At worst, it’s an epic failure.
There are reasons for micro services: independent deployment of business capabilities. However, the unspoken assumption is that you need to deploy all capabilities all the time. My experience has shown me that it’s plain wrong. Some capabilities need frequent deployment, while some are much more stable. In “the past”, we used Rule Engines to allow updating business rules without deployment. While it solved the problem, this approach had issues. Between introducing a Rule Engine and migrating your complete system to micro services, I believe that there’s a middle path, and that this path is Function-as-a-Service.
In this talk, I’ll detail every point I’ve made above, and show how one can use Serverless to pragmatically design a system that allows deploying as often as you need.
#monolith #microservices #serverless #pragmatism
Lunch BREAK
Meet Pylones and NGINX- PYLONES/NGINX Silver Sponsor speech
Today, every company is a technology company…
Both businesses and consumers now rely heavily on technology more than ever. Technology is used by consumers to expedite transactions and make them transparent. Businesses utilize it to speed up the sales and customer service processes and provide better service to their clients.
Given this emphasis on technology, Pylones advise giving your organization's technological components, which influence almost every area of running your firm, top priority.
Database design for SaaS Multi-Tenant Applications
Tradeoffs and options of segmenting tenants in multi-tenant applications with horizontal scalable databases.
#distributed #databases #multitenant
DevOps with LOGIC - withLOGIC Silver Sponsor
Don't spend half of your budget on DevOps complexity.
Thrive with autonomy, put smiles on developers' faces and help systems’ teams focus on what's important.
Shifting Left Stateful Applications In Kubernetes
Stateless apps are easy to manage. More often than not, a Kubernetes Deployment, with a Service, Ingress, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) is enough.
Almost everyone can do it. But, when it comes to stateful applications, things become a bit more complicated. We might need a database and storage. We might need to manage database users and schema. We might need to consider quite a few other things. Stateful apps are harder for everyone, especially if we want to shift left and enable developers to do it themselves.
In this talk, we'll try to make the management of stateful applications easy for everyone. We'll accomplish that by creating easy-to-consume services that are made specifically for the needs of our organizations. We'll see how to create new Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and controllers using Crossplane. Those controllers will envelop all the tools, resources, and processes we might need. As a result, ops can focus on creating such services while everyone else can consume them (create and manage everything related to stateful apps) without opening JIRA tickets and waiting for others to complete their tasks.
#kubernetes #crossplane #db #stateful-apps
Meet instacar - Instacar Silver Sponsor
instacar is the first fully digitized vehicle as a service scale-up in Greece, founded in 2018, with the vision of becoming the ultimate mobility Super App in Greece and SE Europe. With instacar everyone can enjoy car leasing, in the most flexible terms, without the restrictions of traditional leasing, while every procedure is conducted 100% online.
Coffee BREAK
WeatherXM: The evolution of a web3 IoT startup - WeatherXM Silver sponsor
How a small team of romantic engineers iterated a “quick and dirty” IoT infrastructure to scale a global web3 weather network.
PANEL Discussion: Big Bang and the IT job market
The IT job market has been booming during the last years, it has evolved a lot and startups have played a key role in this. Combine this with new skills that have emerged from new technologies like Blockchain and the Metaverse and you have the recipe of this amazing panel we'll host with experts in different fields, from hiring and company culture, to engineering and startups.
Main focus of the panel will be about the exponential need for talents in the IT job market during the last years, the critical skills for young engineers that want to start a career in IT and last but not least how engineers shall reskill to future-proof and develop their career
